Roland Buerk, BBC News
June 3, 2008
"Gunshot wound, this is a gunshot wound, and this one, there are so many gunshot wounds," said Sri Lankan government vet, Doctor Chandana Jayasinghe.
He was standing next to the huge, slumbering bull elephant in a clearing in the jungle, hypodermic syringe in hand.
"It is normal, they all have gunshot wounds."
The men of the Wildlife Conservation Department had ventured into the tangled scrub to find the wounded elephant.
Treading carefully not to snap twigs and prompt a charge, they had moved up close, so near they could see his ears flapping behind the thick greenery, before one man shot him with a tranquiliser dart.
Now he lay on his side, slow, heavy breaths rattling in his trunk.
They gave him antibiotic injections and sprayed disinfectant on his wounds, some old and calloused, others new and raw.
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